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A globe-spanning, ambitious book of essays from one of the most enthralling storytellers in narrative nonfictionIn his highly anticipated debut essay collection, Impossible Owls, Brian Phillips demonstrates why he's one of the most iconoclastic journalists of the digital age, beloved for his ambitious, off-kilter, meticulously reported essays that read like novels.The eight essays assembled here -- five from Phillips's Grantland and MTV days, and three new pieces -- go beyond simply chronicling some of the modern world's most uncanny, unbelievable, and spectacular oddities (though they do that, too) . Researched for months and even years on end, they explore the interconnectedness of the globalized world, the consequences of history, the power of myth, and the ways people attempt to find meaning.
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Phillips has written for Grantland, MTV News, The New Yorker, and other publications. His first book, the New York Times-best-selling 'Impossible Owls,' was published in 2018. Staff writer of The Ringer.
